Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-21
hi he MORPHINE ROUTE
.uicide Added to the Long
81. THAT is q Blot on the
mails Of Butte.
h Frail Sisterhcod on Galen'
s.,.et poisons Herself on Ae'
count Of Her Lovers
Perady.

fs'ao =, suicides committed in this city
rs .he frail s%isterhood residing o.
.treet, concluding that life hat
'''a . burden no longer to be endured
f0p. .ts great majority bv taking a dos
Fps' Lime. She was understood to b
e"pt,a man named Eli Johnson
' W here in the early part o
and went to San Francisco
,.s sent him sums OF none.
IONS times since, and latel,
~,suorted that he was living with an
.onan. This preyed upon her miro
sf aI extent that she has made sew
sa.smpts upon her life, each of which
assstrated until the one Of Saturds Y
fn Y was noticed yesterday by be-
n,ors that she a not stirring ronnt
~, usual hour in the morning
yasttie Hill, her landlady, founc
.,nuching on the floor in tn,
ANN # her house about 2 O'Clock
Eve the alarm to the police, when ar
rsstion was made, and her dead body
F,uon the floor, with an empty glass
pysnd. The body WAS stiff in death
est was Immediately held, Judge
Enn acting as % in the absence
EImsdsn who was ont of the city,
Ete following test mony was given:
THE INQUEST.
u...;0 Hill was the first witness. She
, trew the deceased three years ago.
aid her ase was 20, and that she was
..;,d Her husband is in San Francisco.
An at, ess last saw her alive on Satur.
" .na vas the first to discover her yes.
Witness WIS in the hab bit If going
10 the deceased's house every day and
Wv che took morphine AID chleral in
n,a quantities. Witness found her lying
~ aoor dead. The witness had raped
th " door repeatedly. but had received
rssnonse, and having lost the
,s of the honse, (of which witness is the
.Jyodv came through the window,
Dino her lying there as when she re-
sined during the inquest. Witness drove
rnrs. Johnson. Hough and Amsden in
(,session but could find none ri them at
sr offices. She then met Officer Lou p.
Mn, While she was absent anyone
C,bt have entered thr ugh the window,
T. witness said deceased has had no
Ouble. Her husband left Butte July 5.
\ has taken drugs to excess. Sat-
[day afternoon she told witness to
her alone. She never said she would
mmit suicide. The witness had SIS ia
! care belonging to deceased, which she
spyen for sale keeping. The deceased
MI a house. Her husband signs his name
"a, Johnson. She got letters that
~, She was known on the street as
Etje and was born 10 Mobile, Ala, and
.ed in California. Witness was told her
Ls name but forgot it. She had no cor
troudence except with her hns.
md, from whom she frequently
rived letters. Witness further stated
/ would pay the deceased's funeral ex-
res in case OF the refusal OF the husband
mother Of the dead woman to do 81.
be witness then made the admission, in
contradiction of her previous evidence,
al the dead woman has had continuous
nuble since July 5, the date OF her 3d.
lied husbands leaving her, and that
bee then she had spells OF alteration.
illness told the clerks at the
M store not to sell deceased any
lore choral, being apprehensive that
be would some time or other take an
VERBOSE. Witness knew she had bought
wo boxes OF rhloral last Friday, and had
wo bottles Of morphine in her pocket.
|ook. The witness found deceased pros
lated from the effects OF morphine q num-
= O. times. When she ca me to the win
v there was a maj there named j. H.
donald. He told witness it was Of no
ITO 20 in; that she was lying dead on the
Nj.
Blanche Desiardin said she lived in the
puse opposite that occupied by the de-
ssd, whom she had known for three
4s. Sha ate supper with the deceased
idsy night. Deceased said to witness.
|Tou have heard Of my trouble" and
Eded that she bad heard her husband
N another m Deceased said she
bid her reut AID had a right to take
|hat she pleased in her wi house. She
Emitted that she took more morphine
ban choral. Witness only spoke to the
Fsased occasionally. The deceased went
\ The name OF Birdie Johnson. Witness
bd been told by deceased what the lat
ks mothers name is, but had forgotten.
Ella Haywood, another neighbor OF the
had been acquainted with her
|ca the 18th of July. and known her by
fsname OF Birdie Johnson. The witness
Saw her alive about three or fOur
Fturday afternoon. The deceased was
|ting in the room in which the inquest
being held. reading letters, as she
lated to the witness from her husband.
BE deceased was in n detected frame OF
bind, having received bad news about her
from come friend who had re-
returned from San Francisco, and
pc witness tried / o console her and cheer
frnp, She was taking a drug at the time,
chloruI or morphine. The deceased
mad" any concealment OF this and b
had seen her takeS it.
Esttie Hill came and told her
pat morning that Birdie johnson
rs dead, when the witness went and
through the window and saw her
Fad. The witness was awsre Of no trouble
pat the deceased had complained OF ex-
eh that about her husband. which seemed
her mind very much, so much
that the deceased couldn't get along
Hnout the nse of drugs.
James Mcdonald had been acquainted
the deceased for about a year. He
SAY her alive on Saturday when b
sn nothing particularly worthy -
petition that he could remember. he
Nv Matte Hill take her box OF cblora'
'ay from her. Deceased said that b
Ouid get more. Matte Hill asked witne IS
go into the house through the window
af She had called him upon making d
seeovery, when he kept guard over b
osy while Matte went after the Coroner.
vlncer Lou P. Smith said he was too
,m me death OF the deceased by Matt'e
in AZ 2:lO D.. NJ. when he came oown
no Officer Jordan and found the deceased
Inc position in which she was upon q
70 por when the inquest Was being held.
'nen be came there the body was rigid,
W. ne thought she must have been neao
some hours. There was nothing dl-ar-
about the room except the bed'
nto had been slept in. Had Deen &c
itainted with the deceased for some years.
IT. smith then produced a telegram ne
BAN FRANCISCO, September 17.-MRs.
'neiE JoHNsoN, Galena street.-the woman;
,vnsh; no stock in Morey's; wait letter;
1sser. ELF.
ar. Smith had heard OF their trouble.
!. ~ telegram was lying at the head OF the
" ~ on the stand.
ine Jury returned a verdict to the e1ect
a ~ the de creased came to her death by
tslng an overdose OF morphine ana
administered by her own hand'
h ns Jury could not. from the evidence, con-
NJ N.Y. mai the overdose was taken VIII
;nauai intent. but from the surrounding
nn.uhs'ances there can be very httie
tuoe MAT such was the case. 1t is under
ioou that her mother is alive in Cailior,
somewhere, in good circumstances, o
the deceased was an only child. She
70 Butte some three years ago o
, accompanied by Elf Johnson: IL If
i .eu' upon what seems good authority
~ ene RAg tho N &c, 80 tha Ia nIlnrN NJ one